02-17-2010, 12:03 PM
Larry;
To answer your questions -
1 - Yes there was indeed a yard in Frankfort. It was a join L&N/F&C yard. The F&C had a 3 stall concrete block combined shop/office at the yard. In earlier years, they had a turntable there too.
2 - National Distillers Old Grand Dad distillery was located about 5 miles East of Frankfort on the "main" line to Georgetown. Old Grand Dad was considerably larger than the Buffalo Springs Distillery and located on a long spur off the main line. In the final years of operation of the F&C the line ended at Elsinore (Forks of Elkhorn) about a mile past the Grand Dad spur. The line from that point to Georgetown having been abandoned.
Schenley (Ancient Age Bourbon) was located at the end of a separate 2 mile branch of the F&C in Frankfort. That spur paralleled the Frankfort to Georgetown (Elsinore) main line East for about a mile, then made a turn to the West to reach Stagg where the massive Schenley plant was located. The tracks at Schenley would make a layout in itself.
Over the years, myself and several other people I know have made vain attempts at modeling the F&C, but my personal feelings about it would be you'd have to just pick out a portion of the line to try and model. The line from Frankfort to Stagg would be my choice, but you're still looking at something pretty large.
Some information about the F&C can be found here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.abandonedrails.com/article.asp?id=315">http://www.abandonedrails.com/article.asp?id=315</a><!-- m -->
Although the map included in that article does not show the Stagg line.
You might want to try this link for a Topo map of Frankfort:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=11&Z=16&X=1715&Y=10574&W=3&qs=|frankfort|ky|">http://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=11& ... nkfort|ky|</a><!-- m -->
You can see the general arrangement of the L&N/F&C yard (even shows the turntable still there) and you can follow the line out to Stagg or up the hill to Elsinore to get an overall feel for the route of the railroad.
Ed
To answer your questions -
1 - Yes there was indeed a yard in Frankfort. It was a join L&N/F&C yard. The F&C had a 3 stall concrete block combined shop/office at the yard. In earlier years, they had a turntable there too.
2 - National Distillers Old Grand Dad distillery was located about 5 miles East of Frankfort on the "main" line to Georgetown. Old Grand Dad was considerably larger than the Buffalo Springs Distillery and located on a long spur off the main line. In the final years of operation of the F&C the line ended at Elsinore (Forks of Elkhorn) about a mile past the Grand Dad spur. The line from that point to Georgetown having been abandoned.
Schenley (Ancient Age Bourbon) was located at the end of a separate 2 mile branch of the F&C in Frankfort. That spur paralleled the Frankfort to Georgetown (Elsinore) main line East for about a mile, then made a turn to the West to reach Stagg where the massive Schenley plant was located. The tracks at Schenley would make a layout in itself.
Over the years, myself and several other people I know have made vain attempts at modeling the F&C, but my personal feelings about it would be you'd have to just pick out a portion of the line to try and model. The line from Frankfort to Stagg would be my choice, but you're still looking at something pretty large.
Some information about the F&C can be found here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.abandonedrails.com/article.asp?id=315">http://www.abandonedrails.com/article.asp?id=315</a><!-- m -->
Although the map included in that article does not show the Stagg line.
You might want to try this link for a Topo map of Frankfort:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=11&Z=16&X=1715&Y=10574&W=3&qs=|frankfort|ky|">http://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=11& ... nkfort|ky|</a><!-- m -->
You can see the general arrangement of the L&N/F&C yard (even shows the turntable still there) and you can follow the line out to Stagg or up the hill to Elsinore to get an overall feel for the route of the railroad.
Ed
Ed
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